EA Astroturfer?

EA Astroturfer outs himself? Given the reddity-4channiness, it might just some guy trolling 4 lulz, but the story doesn't seem all that unlikely, or in any way beyond the swirling crap-vortex that is EA.

It just baffles me how many corporations are unable to grasp the idea that if a company was doing well enough to make you want to buy them, it might not be a good idea to force changes upon them. Let them do what they were doing, and provide them whatever support they ask for, but let them keep calling the shots for their own product — they know it better than you do.

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